Humanity on the Edge of Extinction | Anders Sandberg | TEDxVienna

[tabithathecat]

I don't know why but something about this is almost relieving. I'm not saying I want anything to die or anything like that, I just feel that it would be like a great new page for everything else on the planet.

[mathewfinch]

My feelings on human extinction are very mixed. On the one hand, humanity really could have been something, so the fact that we wasted the opportunity for sentience we have been given is very sad. On the other hand we did it to ourselves, so it's not like we didnt have it coming.

[LilacKoi]

2:00 really hits different watching post COVID

[filrabat]

If you want to save the human species, and possibly a lot of other life on this planet - get rid of contempt for difference and so-called "defects" and "shortcomings". That is what causes distrust, exploitation, oppression, and such. Not to mention a prime motivator of violence (including full-scale war). We must purge petty distaste for others from our psyches, or we will perish.

[marytica]

OUR ONLY PLANET IS THE EARTH. There is no other planet within our pathetic space capabilities which can support humans. SO, FOLKS - either preserve the Earth that we now live on - or watch humanity suffer a slow, agonizing death. YOUR CHOICE !

[jonathanturner]

The only people who will survive any disaster are those that can adapt quickly to the sudden change.

[skatingfae]

Humans are just hilarious hairless apes.

“Hey, I got nukes!”

“Oh yeah, I got nukes too now! Aha!”

“Damn...well...if you fire your nukes I’m gonna fire mine!”

“My nukes have been pointed at you the entire time you’ve been talking”

“Well, hehe, my nukes are pointed at your Mom’s house”

“ *gasp* not Ma-ma...”

[fireballxl]

From what I have see of the human race is it worth saving!

[ashleighchance]

This'll be a bucket list item. I love to see the human race in its last moments.

[rdelrosso]

At the 2:29 mark, he says "Pandemics are still happening. We had some close calls with SARS and Ebola".
Very prophetic statement #1 -- What about ZIKA?

[lonerlife]

I am excited for this. Let humanity burn.

[stevej]

The end of Humanity is not the end of the world. Earth can go on just fine without us and probably much better. Earth always eventually heals and goes on. The only way it would be the end of the world is if the sun blew up or a rouge planet came in and smashed our planet to bits. That is the end of the world. All these talks about the end of the world only concentrate on the end of Humanity, which is NOT the end of the world (Earth).

[vlad.vasilev.]

Watching this on the day that Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear deterrence on high alert (27.02.2022)! After we just had global virus pandemic for the last 3 winters. It's surreal and I hope there would be someone left to read this comment in 5 years!

[w.d.]

Very interesting that he arrived at the number 5, 000 survivors. That is the same number that Hugh Howey used in the Silo trilogy.

[ninjesus]

"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."
- Harvey Dent

[chocolatte]

I thought wars were caused by competition for land or resources; individual power seeking individuals; religious dogma or a response to a perceived existential threat. Gosh, who knew it was caused by a simple lack of dialogue. So simple. Why have we had so many wars? Those Romans should have dialogued more with those Carthaginians or those Gauls. Problem solved.

[dfrht]

All life has always been, and will always be, on the edge of extinction, if you calculate in a meteor hit.

[SuperTonyony]

To the guy in the audience who kept coughing: YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME AND TAKEN CARE OF YOUR COUGH INSTEAD OF ANNOYING EVERYONE!

[philipaubin]

There a quite a few scenarios that are more present as at 12-MAY-2022 than at the time of this presentation.

[kimweaver]

Post nuke war, who is manning the nuke power plants? With grid power blasted away, the plants need to be operated for 3 to 10 years on emergency power. Hotter inlet water will make cooling even more difficult. Where will the diesel come from? Wells need electricity to pump oil. Pipelines need electricity to pump oil. Refineries need power to operate. Transporting the diesel to the plants will need diesel from the non-working refineries. No water at the pumps, no food at the stores, no internet, no phones, no air travel, and, in short order, no transportation. Then the 1300 fuel cooling pools quickly dry out and catch fire, with some of them, perhaps many of them, experience the prompt nuclear event of unit 3 at Fukushima. Fukushima times perhaps 500. On top of dam failures, chemical plants erupting into fire with billowing toxic smoke, dead zones in the ocean emit highly poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide. It goes on and on.